I've seen this making the rounds, and I need to say that I kind of had to look up who she was. I never watched the Biggest Loser. But when I was working on my memoir I read my childhood journals, and realized I started counting calories at the age of ELEVEN...🧵
Think about what other things I should have been doing at 11. Playing, having fun, being social, reading, learning. I was also doing those things, but I devoted some amount of time and energy to fight my own growing body. I continued to do that my whole life....
It wasn't until my late 30s when I was fat and happy and realized I should just embrace who I was and be healthy mentally and physically and stop worrying about weight. I probably destroyed my metabolism anyway. I think of all the time wasted not realizing who I was becoming, what made me happy...
what I wanted my life to look like, and instead trying to become something else. Also, it would have been ok if I was fat.(I am now), but I need to also interject here to say that I was 90s fat: at my largest I was a totally normal size 8 until I was about 35, when an energy stopped my running...
most important: I exercised and ate vegetables, which are the only things I think people should worry about. All of this is to say that I think it's time we talk about the anti-fatness torture we put people through, primarily women, as a tax on their time, one that robs them of joy and meaning...
And keeps them from being their most. Put another way, anti-fatness and the emphasis on weight and the meanness displayed on The Biggest Loser is another way we keep women down. So it's actually not that distinct from the MAGA movement and it makes sense to me that she is a part of it.